Children and young people theme

The aim of our research at UWE Bristol is
to improve the health, wellbeing and life chances of children and
young people, particularly those in vulnerable groups.

We are committed to research that addresses inequalities in
health outcomes.

We employ methodologies that actively engage children, young
people and their families in research and dissemination
processes.

Our research is undertaken across different settings. We
involve practitioners and professionals from different backgrounds,
and staff from a range of academic disciplines. These include
health and social sciences, clinical, educational and environmental
sciences.

Research themes

There are many themes that run through our research group:

Supporting young mothers through pregnancy
and early parenthood

Preventing injuries in the home in pre-school children

Injury prevention and injury care of school-aged children and
adolescents

Burns and scalds in children and young people

Promoting the uptake of healthy behaviours such as
breastfeeding and immunisation

The development of speech and language in young children

Participation of children and young people in research

Developing the evidence base in children’s palliative and end
of life care; Advance Care Planning, seizure management and Quality
of Life measurement.

Supporting parents following a sudden unexplained death in
infancy

Improving the assessment, delivery and evaluation of nutrition
in critically ill children

Making routine critical care interventions (such as
endotracheal suctioning) safer and more effective

Questioning and challenging routine practices in critical care
units

Predicting earlier physiological deterioration of children in
hospital and interventions to reduce adverse events of children in
hospital

Non-medical and team based approaches to weaning mechanical
ventilation and extubation in children in intensive
care

Developing nursing science in the field of children’s and
neonatal intensive care

Current projects

A National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) funded project
to inform policy and legislation and reduce injuries in Nepal.
This research is not limited to children and young
people.

Supporting Action through First-aid Education (SAFE) study

A mixed methods study funded by the British Red Cross exploring
decision making in people using urgent care services and the
potential role for first aid education to support decision making.
Julie Mytton is Chief Investigator.

Funded by the Scar Free Foundation as part of the Burns
Collective, the Children’s Burns Research Centre is an academic
network led by the University of Bristol and University Hospitals
Bristol NHS Foundation Trust (UHB).

This is in partnership with UWE Bristol, the
University of Bath and Cardiff University, with support from the
Welsh Assembly Government. Julie Mytton and Toity Deave are members
of the Prevention theme.

Lyvonne Tume is Co-investigator on this four
year study, funded by the National Institute for Health Research
(NIHR) HSDR programme. We will help standardise
monitoring of children in hospital, identify deterioration quickly
and prevent harm to hospitalised children across the United
Kingdom.

A study to evaluate the feasibility of
conducting a trial to evaluate the clinical and cost-effectiveness
of a more permissive temperature threshold for antipyretic
intervention in critically ill children with fever due to
infection.

Lyvonne Tume is site Principal Investigator
and Mark Peters, is Chief Investigator, Intensive Care National
Audit and Research Centre.